Wednesday 7 May 2014

Skyping With Bosnians

        A few weeks ago our class had planned to skype a class from Bosnia and talk a little bit to them about the work they were doing and what things were like over with them. Unfortunately however, there was a mix up in the timewe had arranged as the hour had gone back for the spring equinox and we ended up missing our available time slot with them and most of the class left to go to their next class.

      A few of us stayed back after class though to get a chance to talk to them and we finally got through to them. Luck was not on our side though as our internet was too slow to actually skype them on video.

      We decided to just message them on skype and ask them our questions through a live chat. Although the internet was a bit slow we found this worked well. We asked them about their school and what they hoped to do in the future. We found out that their education system is different to ours, with students taking classes like pediatrics and even gynacology. They asked us some questions too and overall it was very interesting to talk live to this class in particular because they were the same class that we had sent our surveys too.

      We talked for about forty minutes before we had to leave for our next class, but it was definitely worth our while as we were able to understand that they're normal teenagers just like us and that they shouldn't be stereotyped just because their country has had some troubles in the past.

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The people in our class that were Skyping with the Bosnians.


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The Bosnians we were Skyping with.

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